Egg-carrier.



I. V. BOWLEY.

EGG CARRIER.

APYLIOATION FILED 001. a, 1912..

1,105,398, Patented July 28,1914.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ISAAC VINCEN BOWLEY, OF WHITEBOCK, MAINE.

EGG-CARRIER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC V. BOWLEY, a citizen ofthe United States, anda resident of \Vhiterock, in the county of Cumberland and State ofMaine, have invented a new and Improved Egg-Carrier, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to packing or shipping receptacles and hasparticular reference to partitions or fillers for receptacles intendedfor the transportation of eggs, bottles, electric light bulbs or otherfrangible articles.

Among the objects ofthe invention, therefore, is to provide a filler ofa simple, cheap and reliable nature for the purposes set forth.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention will hereinafter bemore fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forminga part of this specification in which like characters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in both the views, and in which- Figure 1is a plan view of a portion or fragment of a filler construction made inaccordance with this invention and showing its relation'to the sidewalls of the crate, the latter being indicated in broken lines; and Fig..2 is a perspective view of a portion of one element of the filler.

The several parts of the device may be made of any suitable materials,such as celluloid, vulcanized rubber, cardboard, or the like, and therelative sizes and proportions, as well as the general design of themechanism, may be varied to a considerable extent without departing fromthe spirit of the invention hereinafter more fully set forth andspecifically claimed.

A device made in accordance with this invention comprises preferably aplurality of elements 10 arranged preferably at right angles to oneanother and so interlocked as to be normally held together so as toconstitute a complete filler for a series of articles such as eggs to becarried individually in the cells formed by the combination of theelements referred to. Each of said elements 10 is made up preferably ofa rib 11 of some suitable flat comparatively thin but stifi' materialand of a length corresponding to the inside dimensions of the crate Cwith which the device is to be used, and of a width or heightcorresponding to the maximum d1- Specification of Letters Patent.Application filed October 8, 1913.

Patented July 28, 1914. Serial No. 794,090.

mension of the'articles to be packed or carried in the filler. On eitherside of the rib ll is arranged a comparatively thin and somewhatflexible strip 12, the same being secured to the rib at regularly spacedintervals and thereby forming reinforcement sections 13 extendingvertically or transversely of the filler element. These parts may besecured together in any suitable manner as, for instance, by the use ofglue or cement. The strip 12 between each two adjacent sections 13 islooped as shown at 12", thereby forming a series of flexible cushionsoperative between the articles being carried and the rib 11.

Each of the sections 13 of the combined rib and cushioning strips isslitted at 14 substantially one half way across the filler element 10,or one half the length of such section, and the slits 14 in inverserelation each to each throughout the element. The glue being applied atthe reinforcement 13 over sutiicient space to secure the several partson each side of the slit, the slitting does not seriously Weaken thedevice as a whole and does not interfere with the proper cushioningstrength of the cylindrical cushioning stripsections 12, the ends ofeach of such cylindrical sections being connected securely to the ribindependently of the slits. The arrangement of the slits in staggeredorinverse relation makes it possible for the filler to be lifted as awhole by grasping any two of the elements without dan er of separationof such elements.

Ifaving thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In an eg carrier, a filler consisting of aplurality of elements, each element compris mg a -flat stiff rib and acushioning strip secured at regularly spaced intervals to one side ofthe rib, the sections of the strip betweenthe places of connection withthe rib being formed into convex cushions, and said element beingslitted along said places of connection between the strip and the rib,the connection places being operative on each side of the slits andindependently thereof, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In an egg carrier, the combination of a series of filler elementsarranged angularly to one another, each of said elements comprising astiff flat rib and flexible cushioning are preferably arranged 10 fromthe enol thereof inwardly through substrips secured upon opposite sidesof the rib,

said strips being secured along vertically arranged oppositely oisposedplanes to said rib and the sections thereof'between such planes ofconnection being formed into convex flexible sections spaced from therib, the planes of connection aforesaid constituting reinforcements orstiileners for the element anol each of said reinforcements beingslitted stzuotially one half its length whereby the several elements areconnected together.

In testimony whereof l have slgned my name to this specification in thepresenceof two subscribing Witnesses.

t ISAAC VINOE'N BQWLEY. -Witnesses:

' HmAM W. Es'rr,

FREDERICK L. Jmmrs.

